Monthly Archives: September 2005

Hurry, Ophelia VI

Watching the news at 6:00 PM, there was good news: according to the Dartmouth Hurricane center, Ophelia was breaking up because of the colder water. Yay, cold water rocks. Additionally, it looks like Ophelia track has changed a bit east … Continue reading

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Alternet

I haven’t read or touched Alternet since last year and when returning today I must confess I’m impressed with the site’s layout that it makes me wonder what they are running on their backend. (Compare it with the 2004 site). … Continue reading

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Hurry, Ophelia V

Thinking of the rainfall (the wind hasn’t picked up yet): remember those rainy scenes during the endfight in ‘The Matrix: Revolutions’? Those were shot in a studio. I also watched The Weather Channel and noticed discrepancies between what they predict … Continue reading

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Hurricane Haiku II

I am at a loss The noodles are sold out. Hark! Hurricane season!

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Hurry, Ophelia IV

While going around the property to pick up loose stuff (shovels, brooms and that), I noticed the huge spiderweb in front of the steps in the backyard. A tiny spider, so I carefully broke the web, gently guided the spider … Continue reading

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Hurry, Ophelia III

Interesting: it looks like Ophelia is going faster than I expected. However, Ophelia is only supposed to hit land at midnight UTC, which makes it 8:00 PM over here (according to track data): it’s going to be a long Sunday. … Continue reading

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Hurry, Ophelia II

OK then: it looks like Ophelia actually is going to bring more problems over here than previously anticipated. That is, the media and national weather centres, being (probably) overexposed to Katrina coverage, upgraded the weather conditions for tropical storm Ophelia. … Continue reading

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Hurricane Haiku

A hurricane hurles At hurricane force strength. Huh? another outage minor stanzaic corrections

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Hurry, Ophelia

I saw that Ophelia is slowly skimming off the Eastern US coast, meaning that it most likely will do the same over here at the Atlantic coast. It only moves at a speed of 3mph, too. That’s 5 km/h for … Continue reading

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Donuts

Donuts! Plenty of donuts. Blue ones. Donuts Blogs, Doughnuts, FlickR Donuts, Pre-baked donuts and uh, oh, FREAKING SCARY DONUTS. Your Daily xsamplex will continue tomorrow.

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Hearing. Aid.

One article that caught my eye was this one over at Ars Technica: The iPod generation that becomes deaf (originally via Slashdot/Wired article): Researchers fear the growing popularity of portable music players and other items that attach directly to the … Continue reading

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Muhahaha

Hey. Google has added Blogsearch. Fantastic, eh?. A quick search tells me that yours truly isn’t even listed. On any search engines. That’s good news. update: 7:11 PM, Looks like Slashdot is down. Must have been because of the Blogsearch … Continue reading

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Moo Cow

Niels’ How-To documentation (Good stuff)

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